Re: [cc65] TGI bitmap fnts revisited

From: Greg King <greg.king41verizon.net>
Date: 2011-07-18 12:24:12
From: "Ullrich von Bassewitz"; on Sun, July 17, 2011; at 09:22 AM -0400
>  
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 02:05:54PM +0200, Oliver Schmidt wrote:
> > However, calling it a "C string" seems misleading, too, to me
> > because that implies that the chars. are to be used until the
> > zero-termination is reached. But, if the TGI Kernel needs to
> > truncate the string at the end because of clipping, then the string
> > is _NOT_ to be used until the zero is reached -- is it?
>  
> Well, it's a C string in the sense that there is a zero-byte
> somewhere. But, you're right: The driver must use just the length
> byte.

So, the arguments can be described as:
1) (ptr3) a pointer to the beginning of an array of char,
2) (6502 register) the length of that array,
3) (ptr1,ptr2) the co-ordinates where that beginning must be plotted.

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